'Rex' by Simon James

St. Mary’s CE (A) First School – Medium Term Topic Planning Key stage: 1 Cycle: 2 Term: Autumn Term Topic: “Rex” Food and Food Chains Literacy Focus Text: ‘Rex’ by Simon James ‘Baby Brains’ by Simon James

Fascinators: Eggs “Whose egg is this?” Display animal eggs. Match captions/descriptions to eggs.

Learning Challenge Year 1: Why would a dinosaur not make a great pet? Year 2: What are fossils?

Programmes of Study Teaching objectives Teacher Input / Learning Activities Assessment Year 1 Assessment Year 2 Cross Curricular Key questions/ Link s vocabulary

Pupils should be To explore early food Share text ‘Rex’ by Simon http://www.bbc.co.uk/edu Can the children name common Can the children name SMSC Moral taught to use their chains. James. cation/clips/z8hxpv4 birds, fish, amphIbians, reptiles common birds, fish, Spiritual Use clip to highlight the and mammals? amphibians, reptiles, Awe and wonder – watching observations and To identify and name Share model dino egg. fact that plants and mammals and invertebrates, a dinosaur egg hatch from its ideas to suggest common animals. What do we need to do to animals both need food to Can they identify the features of including pets? egg answers to help it to hatch? Watch. survive. Introduce terms these? questions. To sort animals into Take photos and guess carnivore, herbivore and Can the children use Animal fact files. groups. what might hatch. omnivore. Can the children recognise what vocabulary carnivore, Dinosaur poetry a carnivore, herbivore and herbivore and omnivore? Dinosaur adventure story Pupils should be Identify and name some omnivore eats? taught to: common examples. Can the children name and Identify and name a Power point – Food Chains Can the children create a simple sort a range of different Maths – Using Venn and variety of common Classify and sort animals food chain? animals into groups? Carroll Diagrams to sort animals that are into groups. using different criteria. Walking with Dinosaurs Can the children create a birds, fish, (BBC) Create range of different simple food chain? amphibians, Planet Dinosaur (BBC) food chains using reptiles, mammals pictures. and invertebrates. Play life cycles game.

Identify and name a variety of common 1

animals that are Discuss living and non- carnivores, living. Can the children complete life cycles of plants and herbivores and animals? omnivores.

Describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature Explore different habitats. Can the children name some Can the children explain why and invertebrates, /habitats Explain using sentences habitats? some animals live where and including pets) why animals lived where they do? http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesiz they did. Discuss food Can they sort animals into the e/ks2/science/living_things/ and appearance. correct habitats? Identify that most plant_animal_habitats/read/ Can the children explain how 1/ Explore habitats of a Can they say why an animal some animals have adapted living things live in range of common may live in a certain habitat? to their habitats and habitats to which animals. Explain why environments? they are suited and animals live where they describe how do. Discuss how animals different habitats have adapted to survive. provide for the Why do animals live where Make a puppet dinosaur. Can the children say when basic needs of they live? What animals live Design, make and dinosaurs were on the different kinds of in fields, ponds etc? evaluate a clay dinosaur Earth? animals and plants, Write instructions for each and how they Dinosaur Time Period stage of the dinosaur Can the children design a 2

depend on each Power Point. model making process. model of a dinosaur? other. Why are the Dinosaurs gone? Power Point Sketch dinosaurs Can the children use different materials to make Identify and name a Split pin dinosaurs models of dinosaurs? variety of plants and animals in their Split pin dinosaur Can the children use habitats, including skeletons different fixing techniques to make models of dinosaurs? micro-habitats .

Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.

Pupils should be To explore significant Who was Mary Anning? Explrore website Can they make a timeline of Can the children explain in Maths – measures (making taught about: historical events. bbcc history Mary Anning Play game, quiz and Mary Anning’s life? full sentences what a fossil fossils) watch video. is? English – writing instructions the lives of To be able to talk What is a fossil? bbc class Can the children identify key significant about the past. clip - fossils Make jelly bean, facts about her life? Can the children explain who Awe and Wonder – exploring individuals in the chocolate fossils to Mary Anning was? real fossils, sketching fossils past who have To place events and reinforce how fossils were contributed to objects in created millions of years Can the children explain how 3

national and chronological order ago. fossils were formed? international To recognise why Salt dough fossils. Can the children tell you achievements. people did things, why when Mary Anning was Some should be events happened and Sketch fossils. alive? used to compare what happened as a aspects of life in result Can the children retell some different periods Research Mary Anning important events in Mary To ask and answer Write diary entry - Mary Anning’s life? questions about the Anning. past. Crimean War Can the children explain who Florence Nightingale - http://www.woodlands- Florence Nighingale was? To know about the junior.kent.sch.uk/Homew lives of significant Florence Nightingale bbc ork/victorians/florence/ Can the children explain why men, women and history Use website to research Can the children say who she was famous? children drawn from Discuss who she was and facts about Florence Florence Nightingale was? the history of Britain why she was famous. Nightingale. Include Can the children retell some and the wider world questions for the children Can they explain how she important events in Florence Discuss how Florence to answer. helped people? Nightingale’s life? influenced nurses like Mary Describe some Seacole. Compare old and new Can they describe hospital Can the children describe features of the past. lamps. conditions in the past? hospital conditions in the Make an old lamp. past? Describe what old photographs can tell about people in the Speaking and Listening past. Activity. Show children a photo of a Crimean War Ask and answer hospital scene. 1 child to questions about report back for someone people and life in the else to draw. Repeat with past. other children in the 4

To explore how group. domestic ways of life have changed. Write letter describing the terrible conditions in the Scutari hospital.

Pupils should be To research people Redfern Cottage Visit taught about: and places in own Discussion - Showers are Can the children say who Mary Can the children explain who locality. better than baths’. ‘You Howitt was? Mary Howitt is? significant historical should only bath once a events, people and How did people keep clean week’. Can they retell some important Can the children say where places in their own 100 years ago? events in Mary Howitt’s life? Mary Howitt was from? locality. Look at a range of ‘Keeping Look at ‘doing the Clean’ images. Include past washing’ worksheet. Can the children describe how Can the children retell some and present. Describe differences and life was different in the past? important events in Mary Pair Share: What can you similarities. Cut and stick Howitt’s life? see in each picture? How is appliances to the this different from your appropriate kitchens. house today? Why is it

important to keep clean and Look at ‘bath time’ Can the children describe wash them selves? worksheet. how life was different Hot seat bath time activity. Use ‘kitchen range’ sheet 50years ago or 100 years Pair Share: Would they like to label parts and uses. ago? to share a bath in the past? Writing activity - Which Why/why not? would you prefer to use and why? Emphasise Video 2 In the kitchen using the connective Video 15-Bath time. ‘because’ to explain reasoning.

Mary Howitt Redfern Cottage Visit Who is Mary Howitt? Research.

To explore and Read text ‘Bonfire Night’ Answer question – “Who Can the children talk about the Can the children ask and SMSC Moral understand events Who went to a bonfire? was Guy Fawkes?” key events of the Gunpowder answer questions about the that took place Why do we have bonfire plot? past? English - Bonfire Night poem beyond living memory night? How are we going to Fireworks pictures – wax (New Star Science p24 and that is significant find out? resist Can they use onomatopoeia? set of little books) nationally. Watch Video – Famous Can the children use Events Hot Seat Guy Colour Magic – create different materials and English – write a letter to To find out about the Fawkes and The King. Guy Fawkes picture using techniques in art? warn them about the plot past from a range of As a class role play the ‘stamper’ tools and ‘spray’ sources of sequence of events leading tools for flames.

information up to Guy Fawke’s capture. Sequence the gun Video powder plot using To recognise why pictures. people did things, why events happened and what happened as a result

Fascinators: Healthy and unhealthy food examples. “Which foods can be sorted into ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’?”

Learning Challenge Year 1: How will five a day help me to stay healthy? Year 2: How can we grow our own salad?

Pupils should be To recognise that Take the batteries out of Make different types of Can the children name a range Can the children name a SMSC Spiritual taught to: humans need food to Roamer and ask the food out of play dough. of different fruit and vegetables? range of different fruit and Awe and Wonder – different live. children why he won’t work. (Consolidate changing vegetables? types of food grown in Notice that animals, Emphasise the fact that we materials learning from Can they plan a healthy meal different countries. including humans, To recognise what is all need power and energy Cycle 1) using the main food groups? Can the children explain have offspring fair and unfair. to work. Where do humans what they think makes a Literacy – Diary writing which grow into get their energy from? What Draw their breakfast on a Can the children name some food healthy? ‘What I eat in a week’. adults To recognise what is food have you had this plate. body parts? Senses poetry right and wrong. morning? What will you Can the children talk about have for lunch? What will Write grace for use in the Can they explain why exercise the main food groups? Find out about and To share opinions on you eat for dinner? What dinner hall. is important? describe the basic things that matter to about snacks? Can the children talk about needs of animals, them. Design a poster for a Can children name the things what makes food unhealthy? including humans, Talk to the children about ‘happy’ dinnertime. humans and animals need to the effects of no food on the Emphasise that we survive? Can the children name some for survival (water, body. What happens to the should be grateful for food body parts? food and air) shape of your body and and not wasteful. describe the muscles? Talk about famine Can the children explain why importance for in the world and poverty in Make a food collage using exercise is important? 7

humans of England. flat wrapping and exercise, eating the packaging. right amounts of Nurse visit – discuss different types of healthy eating and food, and hygiene. exercise.

Espresso – ks1 – science – find out about food

Write a rule for dinnertime about not being wasteful. Describe the To recognise different Show the children a range Use carrots, peas, Can the children talk about how Can the children explain how SMSC Social, Spiritual and importance for kinds of food. of food products (fruit, sweetcorn, spinach, some food is grown and where food are grown and where Moral vegetables, cereals, dairy, potatoes in different it comes from? they come from? humans of To recognise and meat, rice, beans, sweets). packaging. Taste frozen, Awe and Wonder – fruit and exercise, eating the make healthy food Can we sort into healthy canned, fresh, vacuum Can the children talk about vegetables cross sections right amounts of choices. and unhealthy? How do we packed items. Do they Can the children follow a set of the nutritional content of (looking at patterns) different types of know? What ingredients do taste the same? What is instructions to make bread? some foods? food, and hygiene. they all have? Are they the difference? Is there fatty? How can we tell? any nutritional difference? Can the children follow a set What can we look at? Record tasting findings – of instructions (recipe) to Compare canned, raw and preferences. make food? frozen carrots. What nutritional information can Match food to its source – we find out about from the underground, plants, packaging? animal.

Look at different sorts of Singing – muffin man, pat packaging. Boxes, bottles, –a-cake, simple simon, cartons etc What is it made hot cross buns

from? Cardboard, plastic, polystyrene, bubble wrap. Make a fruit salad and Why? Undo a box to see its fruit kebabs. net shape. Make clay food Investigation – Barnaby wants to send meringues in Draw cross sections of the post. How can he fruit and veg – use Can they do an observational package them so that they pastels, paints, collage drawing of a piece of fruit? won’t break? Using plastic fruit and veg make a fruit man portrait based on painting. Take a Can the children use line, shape photo. (arcimboldo) and colour?

Draw and pastel a picture Can they use a variety of tools of a fruit man portrait to produce pieces of art? based on Arcimboldo.

Draw an Arcimboldo picture using colour magic.

Make box packaging for their fruit. Add label to packaging to say where it has been made.

Work out nutritional values from packaging. (guided reading book talk)

Plan and make a healthy pizza.

Name and label the four Can they recognise that a map countries that make up is about a place? the UK

Label seasonal changes Can they name the four including night and day. seasons? Discuss, name and order different seasons. Can they order them? (include weather) Can they observe seasonal changes?

Can they talk about what happens to the amount of daylight in the different seasons?

To recognise the need What do we need to do to Make a moving star jump/ Can they say why exercise is to exercise. keep healthy? What swimming person using good for us? exercise have you done split pins. To understand that today? Tell partner. What Can they name some types of people and other different parts of your body Predict then investigate - exercise? living things have can you exercise? Perform How many star jumps can needs. silly exercises – nose, eyes, you do in 1 minute? toes, ears, chin, eye brows. Record in simple table. To understand how Repeat copying partner. rules can help them. Make exercising people

What parts of our body do from salt dough. To make choices that we need to exercise to stay improve health and healthy? Why? On IWB find Group discussion – Why fitness. the “verb” pictures and copy do I need to eat healthy – which are healthy food? Why do I need to exercises? Talk about brain exercise? gym – and discuss activities that exercise body as well as brain.

Where do you exercise?

What are the effects of exercise? (PE) Heartbeat, hot, sweaty, tired, breathlessness

Find out about and To recognise that Show the children a droopy Sort different food and Can they say what humans Can the children explain why SMSC Cultural and Moral describe the basic humans need water to plant. What is wrong? What drink into healthy and need to keep them alive? humans need water to live? live. has happened to the unhealthy. Awe and Wonder – water needs of animals, leaves? Why? How could Can they say why we give to Can the children explain why PSHE - Link to famine and including humans, To take part in a we make it healthy again? Water songs – Water of charity and why helping others some countries have famine drought. Giving to charity. for survival (water, simple debate. Emphasise the fact that life is important? or drought? food and air) humans need water to live. To know how some What other liquids do Debate – Why do we give Can the children explain diseases spread. humans drink? to charity? Should we what a charity is? give to charity? Pair Share: Do you have Can the children debate enough water to drink and Ethos – ‘God is about important issues? food to eat? everywhere, let him in’. Watch Samaritans Purse Make doors from heart Can the children share their

videos about Love in a Box templates with ethos opinions that are important charity. phrase inside. to them? Pair Share: What are the dangers of not having clean What happens if you don’t water to drink? have enough water in the body? What are the symptoms?